Haylee Ebersole: June 2020

Haylee Ebersole is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, print media, and installation. She earned a BFA in Printmaking from Metropolitan State College of Denver and an MFA in Printmaking from Ohio University. In 2017, Ebersole was awarded the Emerging Artist of the Year by the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and was the recipient of a Creative Development Grant provided by the Investing in Professional Artist Grants Program, a partnership of The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments. She currently teaches Drawing and Mixed Media at Seton Hill University and is the founder of Meshwork Press, a neighborhood print shop in Wilkinsburg, PA. 

“In my work, everyday detritus swirls in colorful and sporadic compositions, frozen temporarily within layers of translucent gelatin. These fragments are sidewalk debris gathered as part of a ritual of walking, collecting, and preserving. Wallpaper, hair, wrappers, a cigarette butt, nail polish, a lotto ticket, and a moldy lemon mingle in a mosaic of quasi-geologic connective tissue. I view my sculptures as inverse fossils. They are embedded with contradiction: the organic, ephemeral gelatin as petrifier and the inorganic, synthetic waste as soft tissue. The gelatin, derived from a once-living being, will eventually dissolve leaving no trace other than the man-made bits that remain. I’m interested in making work that marks our time on earth and contemplates the traces our human existence may leave behind.”

http://hayleeebersole.com/
https://www.meshworkpress.com/